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NY A 2545

in committee

Enacts the "school aid equity act"

New York · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Description

Increases foundation aid for school districts that meet five variables impacting academic success: free or reduced lunch, English language learners, wealth ratio, enrollment, special education, and being located in a high wealth ratio county.

Introduced
Status date
Latest action
2026-01-07 — REFERRED TO EDUCATION
Bill type
bill
Last updated

Sponsors

  • Nader Sayeghprimary
  • Phara Souffrant Forrestcosponsor
  • Jo Anne Simoncosponsor
  • Stefani Zinermancosponsor
  • Vivian Cookcosponsor
  • Karl Brabeneccosponsor
  • Jodi Gigliocosponsor
  • John Lemondescosponsor
  • Catalina Cruzcosponsor
  • MaryJane Shimskycosponsor
  • Alec Brook-Krasnycosponsor
  • Angelo Santabarbaracosponsor
  • Jeff Gallahancosponsor

Committees

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Action timeline

  1. 2025-01-17

    REFERRED TO EDUCATION

    referral-committee

  2. 2026-01-07

    REFERRED TO EDUCATION

    referral-committee

Versions

Documents

Votes

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Related bills

  • Prior session: A 8700not in this corpus
  • Prior session: A 2514not in this corpus
  • Prior session: A 103not in this corpus

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